Ezekiel groaned as someone shook him .

"What?" He slurred with his eyes closed.

"Why are you here?" A small voice asked.

Opening an eye, he saw Harry kneeling besides him with a confused look on his face.

"I'm sleeping." He slurred.

"But why on the couch? There's another bedroom right next to mine."

"...I like it here."

"You like the couch?"

"Yes."

"Why?" Harry pressed on.

"Alright, that's enough." Dora's voice sounded from the door. "I asked you to check if he was sleeping, Harry. Now go, breakfast is ready."

Ezekiel rubbed his eyes as he heard Dora approaching him.

"You do realize that at some point you're gonna have to do something with that bedroom, right?"

"What time is it?" He pressed his head to the pillow in annoyance.

"We need to get ready for work. I sent a Patronus to Mum and Dad, they'll set the wards at the house. Go get ready, we need to make sure the guy didn't follow us."

"Dora, he's not going to follow us here." Ezekiel sighted. "No one can."

"That's what I thought too, but he knew where we apparated and followed us. I can count the number of people that I know that can do that with one hand and I'll still have four extra fingers." Dora replied as she pointed at him.

Ezekiel sighted into the pillow. Apparition: you travel from one location to another, without traversing the space in-between. Mess up even in the slightest, you'll be lucky if there's enough of you to fill a matchbook. Either way, you'll leave a magic trail behind you once it's done, although it will vanish shortly. To follow an apparatiton you'd have to be close and grab the magical trail before it disappears, infusing it with your own magic. The remaining magic will do the only thing it can: transport you the target's location. Doing all this requires timing and skill, not to mention that you'd have to be completely mental. Even if you did manage to do it, you'd be travelling through magic that's disappearing. Infusing the magic with your own would only allow for one trip, after that the magic would disappear. Meaning you're travelling through something that is already falling apart. If apparating felt like forced through a very tight rubber tube, this felt like being pushed through a straw. To say it hurts would be an understatement. Ezekiel never had problems with this, his errands for the Crown had left him with quite a pain threshold. So did the man that had followed Dora and Harry, apparently, since he had followed them several times.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" The scream echoed throughout the house. Both cousins ran towards it with their wands on their hands, coming from behind the dining room's door.

"HARRY! HARRY, OPEN THE DOOR!"

"HARRY!HARRY!"

They banged on the doors for what felt to be an eternity but the door didn't budge an inch before it slammed open, throwing them on their backs. Before they could try to do something a flock of birds flew right above them and moved through the house. They hid below the furniture as the flock went through every open room before it disappeared from one of the windows.

"HARRY!" He screamed as he rushed to were the screams had appeared. He looked around in shock as even more letters had come, covering every inch of the room, up to actual mountains. Looking around he finally saw a little mountain had moving and dashed to dig up the terrified boy. "It's okay, I got you. I got you." He reassured the boy.

"Fuck! There's even more than before!" Dora screamed astonished. "Did everybody in England wrote to him at the same time?"

"I'm so sorry, Harry." Ezekiel apologized as he rocked him . Stupid, so stupid. He didn't wanted to dealt with this yesterday so he let it be. He thought that it would be a one-time thing. Idiot. People would continue this unless they receive a response, he knew this. Now Harry was terrified again, all because of his negligence. "I'll have Ted post an announcement in the Prophet. No more letters, period."

Harry was so shocked by the whole thing, his voice shaking so much that it couldn't go above a whisper. Ezekiel carried him away on his arms. When his feet touched a small box, he heard a small explosion. The noise startled Harry, who buried himself on Ezekiel's chest. He tried to avoid the boxes but the sheer amount of them had made it impossible. By the time he reached the door it seemed as if he was making popcorn. Ezekiel had a pretty good idea as for what those things might be, but he made sure to take Harry out of the room first.

"What is that noise?" Dora asked as he put down Harry on the floor.

"I think I know." He replied as he untangled himself from Harry and walked towards the room. Again, a popping noise sounded as he touched the box. Frowning, he opened it up to find what used to be a beaded bracelet. The beads were shattered, some of them in the middle and others seemed to have exploded. Looking to one of the beads that wasn't fractured, the shape of a symbol could be made. "Protective bracelet against Dark magic."

"How did they went through the wards? I thought they were set up with your magic."

"They aren't exactly at full power." Ezekiel explained.

"What! Why not? We had some guy chasing us all yesterday!"

"If I set them to full power you and Harry will die. It my magic, remember? Look, I'll go and raise them a bit further, that should keep the owls away. Let me know if you start feeling something and take Harry to the living room, okay?"

Ten minutes later he returned to find that Harry was sitting on the couch, much calmer than before.

"Harry, are you okay? Where's Dora?"

"I'm fine. She went to the toilet."

"Good, let me know if something changes. Do you still want to go with Ted and Andi?" Harry nodded at this as he started walking towards his room. Ezekiel was impressed, usually people would be showing some unrest but Harry seemed okay. On the outside, at least, he still shook a bit when he walked. It was easy to see that he was trying to hide it. Ezekiel knew that he could go and talk to him calm his nerves but he preferred action over empty words. He'd bring peace back to his house, as he should've done from the beginning. Instead of dodging his responsibility like a little brat.

"Merlin's hairy sack, you said that you'd raise it a bit." Dora appeared on the door looking like a corpse.

"Why on earth didn't you say something!" Ezekiel dashed as he grabbed her by the arm and dragged her towards the chimney. "Go to the house, Harry and I will meet you later."

"It's not that bad." Dora said weakly.

"Dora, you're not okay. The wards will devour all your magic if you stay here. Go to the house NOW." Watching the green fire her take away, Ezekiel ran to Harry's room. Worried about what the sudden black magic surge could do, he found him coming down the stairs.

"Hey, Harry. How are you feeling?"

"I'm tired." He replied sleepily. "Is that normal?"

"Yes, don't worry." Ezekiel lied. This was the second time that Harry had been exposed to the Black Magic and he was fine. Dora, an adult, almost had to be carried to the fireplace after raising the power of the wards. Harry had been right next to Ezekiel released far more power than that and was able to move and speak as usual. "What do you say if we skip the tutor for today, eh? We can go somewhere else you like?"

"I like studying." Harry said lowly.

"Oh, very well then." Ezekiel said surprised. "No need to be embarrassed, I like it too. Spent my allowance in runic books when I was a kid, honest." Both smiled as they reached the bottom. "We're not taking the car this time, Harry."

"Then how are we going to the house?" Harry asked as he followed him, his books for the day under his arm.

"With this." Ezekiel held a small box on his hand. "Floo powder. Toss a handful a fireplace connected to the Floo Network, walk into the flames, say where you want to go and voila! Better than apparating."

"But you said I'd turn up in Norway if I used it."

"Might, might, turn up in Norway or whatever country that ends in 'way'." Ezekiel dismissed his remark with a wave of his hand. "We'll make sure that everything goes smoothly and you'll be with Ted and Andi before you realize it. Come on now, off we go." He nodded towards the fireplace, which came to life with a wave of his wand. "Now clear your throat, toss some of the powder there and say 'Tonks'. Simple, see?"

"But why are we using that? Is it because of the other day?" Harry asked, hugging his books. "Because of the man?"

"Yes." Ezekiel nodded. "This will ensure that you aren't followed. Dora and I will take care of him and those letters. Everything will be alright, you'll see."

Harry took the powder on his hand and tossed into the fire. His face lighted up as it turned emerald green. Looking back at "Remember, if you're in trouble you can call me. No matter where or when, if you call me I'll be there." Ezekiel assured him.

Harry smiled at him as he entered the green inferno and screamed "TONKS!"

Watching him disappear, Ezekiel yawned trying to stop the ringing in his ears. Good thing that I told him to say where he was going, he thought. Hate to think what would've happened if I asked him to scream. He waited for a while, sensing for Harry's call. The silence was his only response.

"Master." Kreacher appeared besides him holding a bag. "As you requested."

"Thanks, Kreacher."

"Kreacher exist to serve the Ancient and Most Noble House Of Black, Master." The elf replied as he bowed to him. Looking at the contents of the bag, Ezekiel nodded to himself, took the powder and traveled to his aunt's.

"There you are!" Andi and Harry received him as he dusted himself. "Harry here was going nuts with how long you took."

"I was making sure that he arrived to the right house." He replied as he hugged his aunt. "Is Dora better now?"

"She's at the loo." Ted's voice sounded from behind them. "Those wards of yours did a number one her."

"Right." Ezekiel hugged Ted. "I need her. How fast can you heal her, Andi?"

"It's not as if she got the flu, Ezekiel. This will take some time. What do you need her to do?" She looked at him with incertitude . Ezekiel passed her purse. After looking at its content Andi looked at him disbelievingly. "She's not gonna do it."

"It's the safest bet to get that guy, she'll come around."

"No, she won't."

"What's going on?" Harry asked.

"We're using you as bait."

"M-Me?"

"Well, not you you. You'll see."

"See what?" A sickened voice asked. Everybody turned to its source, a sickly looking Dora standing on the door. Ezekiel wasn't close to her but he could smell the vomit so rather than approach her, he threw the bag at her. She failed to catch it and hit her chest, dropping on the floor it's contents.

"We'll have to wait for Andi to fix you up." Ezekiel added.

"Are those my clothes?" Harry pointed out.

"What?" Dora looked down at the contents of the bag. "Fuck no, I'm not doing that again!"

"The man that followed you was a tracker, I need to lure him somewhere he can't escape from." Ezekiel explained softly. "He ran away from me before I could see him, so it's safe to say that I won't be able to catch him by surprise. I'm not puting Harry in danger so we need the next best thing and that's you."

"Ugh...tea first." Was all she said as she walked to the kitchen. Ezekiel took the bag from the floor, trailing behind her. Harry tried to follow them but Andi stopped him. Ted closed the door and pointed at it with his wand as he whispered Silencio. "Why did you do that?"

"You see Harry, Ezekiel and Nymphadora have a way to... discuss things." Andromeda explained. "We tried to have them be more civilized but..."

Andromeda's explanation was interrupted by muffled sounds coming from the dining room.

"Didn't you silenced the room?" She asked surprised.

"I did" Ted replied. He approached the door as the sounds from the other side began to rise. Seeing her husband about to open the door, Andi covered Harry's ears. Ted had just opened the door a little when...

"YOU'RE A FUCKING PRICK! AN ABSOLUTE CUNT, do you understand that?" Dora's voice thundered.

"I need to know who's coming after us. How am I supposed to control what's going on if I don't know WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?" Ezekiel replied.

Ted closed the door shut as Andromeda shook her head in resignation.

"You'd think they'd get bored of screaming at each other after all this years." He sighted.

"Yeah." Andromeda replied as she uncovered Harry's ears. "Remember when we took them to that restaurant?"

"Which one?"

"The one that banned us for life."

"...Which one?"

"The French one."

"Oh god, yes." Ted made an shuddered as he remembered. "I still think calling the police was a bit too much."

"Are they fighting over me?" Harry's asked pointing at the closed door.

"In a way, yes." Ted replied. Harry saddened hearing this and Andromeda gave him a hard look so he rushed to add. "But not in the way you think! You see Harry, Dora is what we call a Metamorphmagus, that's why she can change herself as she likes."

"I know, she told me."

"Well the other thing she can do is mimic other people to look like them."

"And she doesn't like that?"

"No, I fucking don't." Dora's irated voice interrupted them.

Everybody turned to see Harry... had he been born a woman. Wearing the same clothes that he had the day before, Dora stood before them looking murderous. Harry was left agaze trying to reconcile the woman that had entered the kitchen with the girl that had came out. In the end the only thing that he was able to say was "What?"

Dora walked towards the door with a small limp. "Let's go, I can't stay like this forever."

"In a minute...Harriet." Ezekiel replied laughing.

"Fuck off!"

"She has to rearrange a lot of organs and bones, it's not very good for her." Andromeda finished.

"Ted." Ezekiel turned towards his uncle . "Did Dora told you what happened at the house?"

"You mean the letters and packages? Yes, I'll have a note on the Prophet telling them Harry won't be answering or receiving anything. Ezekiel, this won't look good to the public. They'll say you're keeping Harry in the dark on purpose. That you're doing it to manipulate him or something like that.

"Ted, after today the public can drop dead for all I care. Please make sure that their mail gets back to them."

"Okay, don't say that I didn't warn you. This is the kind of thing that drives fanatics." Ted reminded his nephew

"It's alright." He replied as he hugged and said his goodbyes to his family. "Now if you excuse us, Harriet and I are going to skip work and catch a very persistent stalker."

"I still have my gun, you twat!"

I don't own Harry Potter, all characters except OC belong to J. K. Rowling.